But...just a month ago, Netflix was down. A "rare technical issue".
I think the problem here is that entropy constantly increases. How many processes does the Chaos Monkey kill? Does it run more often over time? You have to fail more over time to compensate for the law of entropy.

Late last year, the Netflix Tech Blog wrote about five lessons they learned moving to Amazon Web Services. AWS is, of course, the preeminent provider of so-called "cloud computing", so this can essentially be read as key advice for any website considering a move to the cloud. And it's great ad...